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Forsyth County News — Thursday, December 1,2005
incorporations
Editor’s note: The following
were filed with the Georgia
Secretary of State’s office.
NOTICES OF INCORPORA¬
TION
McGregor Inc.; initial registered
office: 5160 Stonehaven View,
Cumming; initial registered agent:
Sean McGregor.
American Home Loan Lenders
LLC; initial registered office: 490
Mathis
Airport
Road,
Suwanee;
initial reg¬ I
istered
agent: Bob
J. Phillips.
Plunkett Property Solutions Inc.;
initial registered office: 3720
Casaroga Drive, Cumming; initial
registered agent: Jeffrey Todd
Plunkett.
The Atlanta Cattle Exchange
Inc.; 4250 Keith Bridge Road,
Suites 100 & 110, Cumming; initial
registered agent: Harry E. Peaden.
Timeline Solutions Inc., initial
registered office: 670 High Shoals
Drive, Dahlonega; initial registered
agent: Rhonda Lynn Bailey.
Veny Cleaning Service Inc.; ini¬
tial registered office: 5535 Hancock
Lane; initial registered agent:
Veronica I. Morales.
Southern Software Computing
Inc.; initial registered office: 7330
Pine Valley Road, Cumming; initial
registered agent: Gary Neumann.
Solutions Direct Inc.; initial reg¬
istered office: 3709 Lamplighter
Circle, Cumming; initial registered
agent: Chihoko Sanchez.
Beloved Lord Ministries Inc.;
initial registered office: 7035
Wyngate Drive, Cumming; initial
registered agent: Douglas L.
Markle.
Softek Informatics Inc.; initial
registered office: 8330 Grenadier
Trail, Suwanee; initial registered
agent: Vinitharsri Chandrasekaran.
Life Focus Inc.; initial registered
office: 2630 Saddlebrook Glen
Drive, Cumming; initial registered
agent: Edward Clark.
ADF Global Inc.; initial regis¬
tered office: 1215 Saint Marks
Walk, Suwanee; initial registered
agent: Seon Joo Yi.
Aries Fisher Construction Inc.;
initial registered office: 5245
Double Branches Drive, Cumming;
initial registered agent: Brian D.
Parrett.
Touch of Europe Polish Store
Inc.; initial registered office: 3745
Sweetwater Drive, Cumming; initial
registered agent: Danuta Gazur.
Teen America Corp.; initial reg¬
istered office: 640 Mountclaire
Drive, Cumming; initial registered
agent: W. David Pittman.
NBGS Asia Inc.; initial regis¬
tered office: 5609 Lanca Shire Lane,
Cumming; initial registered agent:
Jeong Kyun Park.
NOTICES OF INTENT
TO INCORPORATE
Handy Hero Inc.; initial regis¬
tered office: 6315 Marlow Drive,
Cumming; initial registered agent:
Hirokazu Kimoto.
Approbative Enterprises Inc.,
initial registered office: 5055
Groover Drive, Cumming; initial
registered agent: Luke Loudermilk.
Altek Construction Inc.; initial
registered office: 1380 Woodvine
Way, Alpharetta; initial registered
agent: Peter P. DelBove.
International Buying Corp.
Worldwide Inc.; initial registered
office: 1264 Old Alpharetta Road,
Alpharetta; initial registered agent:
Pamela Howard.
REO Homes Inc.; initial regis¬
tered office: 5015 Hyde Road,
Cumming; initial registered agent:
Roy E. O’Bryant.
NOTICE OF ORGANIZA,
TION
Vintek Consulting Group LLC;
’ initial registered office: 3450 East
Gate Drive, Cumming; initial regis¬
tered agent: Manesh Kotwani.
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF
CORPORATE NAME
GMB Enterprises Inc. to GMB
Plastics Inc.; registered office: 210
Cumming Industrial Park,
Cumming.
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Jobless rate dips to 3.3% in October
By Crystal Ledford
Staff Writer
Forsyth County continues to
maintain one of the lowest unem
ployment rates in Georgia, according
to recent reports from the Georgia
Department of Labor.
Forsyth’s unemployment rate for
October was 3.3 percent, down one
tenth of a percent from September.
The rate was up by three-tenths of a
point from the same time period in
2004.
During October, Forsyth contin
ued to hold the lowest employment
rate among surrounding counties,
but fell from the lowest rate in the
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a carriage ride around the parking lot
of Lakeland Plaza shopping center
Saturday. The rides are provided by
the Gentle Giant Carriage Co. of
Lithonia and sponsored by Lakeland
Plaza free of charge. Lakeland Plaza
has provided rides to its customers for
the last six Christmas holiday seasons.
Photos/Ron Logan
Seasonal hires help businesses meet demands
ByToddTruelove
Staff Writer
Businesses are increasing their
staff as Christmas Day approaches to
meet the need of holiday shoppers.
Exactly how much additional help
a business will need depends on its
size and the demand for its products,
according to Dr. William Lastrapes,
professor and head of the University
of Georgia’s Department of
Economics at the Terry College of
Business.
“They [a retailer] make an esti¬
mate of what the demand for their
product and sales will be,” said
Lastrapes. “This will vary across dif¬
ferent types of businesses, but pre¬
sumably we’re talking about retail
business.”
“If they think demand is going to
be high, they might decide to open
for longer hours, and they might
decide to staff the floor with addi¬
tional people,” he said.
Locally, department stores such
as Belk have for the most part com¬
pleted hiring for the holiday season.
Belk Human Resources Manager
Pat Rickies said the department store
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Ga. n 400 typically has about u 10 addi
tional staff members to help out
through the holiday season.
I think we’ve probably hired
pretty well what we’re going to use,”
said Rickies, adding many of the
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Georgia Mountains Region one
of 16 Department of Labor divisions
of the state — to the second lowest
after Towns County. Towns had a
rate of 3.1 percent for October.
The region as a whole had the
lowest rate at 4.1 percent. Other
regions’ rates varied from 4.6 per
cent (Coastal Georgia and Northeast
Georgia) to 7.0 percent (Middle
Flint in south central Georgia).
The Georgia Mountains Region’s
rate increased a one-half of a percent
as compared to the same time period
last year. The region’s unemploy
ment rate in October 2004 was 3.6
percent. The region’s rate dropped
three-tenths of a point from
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temporary seasonal workers are col¬
lege students who are off for the hol¬
iday. ,
In addition to assisting in sales
and stocking shelves, temporary
workers are hired to fill specific holi¬ .
day work needs.
Rickies said at Belk, they have if.
hired three workers for gift wrap
pmg.
“It helps a lot,” she said.
Other businesses, such as Home
Depot, may hire seasonal workers to
assist in areas such as trimming
Christmas trees.
“We’re always in the market for
some of the. specialty positions,” said
Don Harrison, Home Depot
spokesman.
“[Christmas] is not a sweeping
hiring effort [for Home Depot],” he
said, adding the stores generally do
the majority of their hiring in the
spring,
“At the year-end holidays, we’ll
put some help in some stores,” said
Harrison. “If they need help, they’ll
put a sign out.”
Sometimes, business staff move
to a different area of the store for the Photo/Sam Freeman
season. Home Depot parking lot attendant Cary Cooper gets a break from
Cary Coo P er > who generally tends his re g U | ar duties during the holiday season by tending to the
the u parking , lot at the local Home St0re o^WcTdtnrk S St0Ck nf 0t Chrktmai Chnstmas trflfiQ trees
Depot at the intersection of Hwy. 20 -
and Market Place Boulevard, said he try typically needs more workers to panies to seasonally add to their
switches duties to trim trees for handle the large volume of gift pack- work force with all the shipping that
Christmas. ages,
Lastrapes said the shipping indus- It’s common for shipping com- See HIRES, Page 2B
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September 2005.
Other counties included the
Georgia Mountains Region are
Banks, Dawson. Franklin,
Habersham, Hall, Hart, Lumpkin,
Rabun, Stephens, Union and White
counties.
Forsyth’s northern neighbor,
Dawson County, had one of the low¬
est rates in the region at 3.6 percent.
Other Georgia Mountain Region
counties’ rates were: Banks, 4.1;
Habersham, 4.2; Hall, 4.3; Hart, 6.5;
Lumpkin, 4.1; Rabun, 4.2; Stephens,
5.3; Union, 3.4; and White, 3.8 per¬
cent.
Forsyth also compared favorably
with nearby neighboring counties
Salespeople
know holiday
rush well
By Mary Jacobs (KRT)
The Dallas Morning News
DALLAS, Texas For ordinary
mortals, New Year’s Eve comes on
Dec. 31. But for many people in
business-to-business sales, the year
ends Dec. 16.
Why? “It’s the last Friday before
the Christmas break, and people are
going to be taking off,” said Jim
Penny, executive vice president with
Management Standards, a sales and
management training firm in Dallas.
“It’s a fact of life — there are
limited selling days in December,”
said Barry Caponi, president of DEI
Management of Dallas, a sales con¬
sulting and training firm. “Now’s the
time to start thinking about the chal¬
lenges of selling in December.”
Rule No. 1: Star players don’t sit
back sipping eggnog and write off
the last half of December as hope¬
less.
A few years ago, Caponi closed
the biggest deal of his career the
week between Christmas and New
Year’s when he was working as a
salesperson for a software company.
“A lot of big deals close toward
the end of the fourth quarter,” he
said. “Sometimes it’s because cus¬
tomers want to close during the fiscal
year; sometimes it’s because sellers
will offer extra incentives to meet
their numbers before the year ends.”
“A majority of deals happen in
the last month of any quarter,” Penny
said. “In other months, it’s not a
problem. But in December, you’ve
got customers who want to unload
the annual budget, and you’ve only
got two weeks to work with.”
Before sitting down to
Thanksgiving dinner, both advise,
salespeople should have a plan in
place for December.
See RUSH, Page 2B
not in the Mountains Region as well
as other counties throughout
Georgia. In fact, Forsyth and Oconee
County — located south of Athens
— tied for the second lowest rate in
Georgia after Towns County.
Gwinnett’s unemployment rate
for October was 4.6 percent;
Fulton’s was 6.2 percent; Cherokee’s
rate was 3.8 percent; Cobb’s rate
was 4.8; and DeKalb had a rate of
6.3 percent.
Unemployment rates in the metro
Atlanta area declined to 5.4 percent
in October, down two-tenths of a
percent from 5.6 in September.
See RATE, Page 2B